The initial step in the creation of a unified government shall be the creation of a charter commission. The charter commission may be initiated either by a proclamation of the chief executive officer of the county or by resolution of the county legislative body. Such proclamation must be ratified by the county legislative body, or […]
It is the duty of the county legislative body to appropriate sufficient funds to defray the expenses of the charter commission, which appropriation shall be not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). Such funds shall be disbursed by the fiscal officer of the county upon appropriate documentation signed by the chair or the secretary of […]
All public officials shall, upon request, furnish the charter commission with all information and assistance necessary or appropriate for its work.
All meetings of the charter commission shall be held in compliance with the open meetings law, compiled in title 8, chapter 44. The charter commission shall prepare and file the charter proposed by it not later than the date provided in the proclamations or resolutions creating the charter commission, or within such extended limit of […]
After a copy of the proposed charter has been certified to the county election commission and the proposed charter has been, in all respects, qualified to be submitted to the voters of the principal city and to the voters of the county outside the principal city, including any smaller city or cities, as provided in […]
The name of the unified government shall be such name as the charter commission shall deem historically and geographically appropriate. The proposed charter shall provide for the effective date of the unified government. The proposed charter shall provide for a single government possessing three (3) branches of government, executive, legislative and judicial, with due regard […]
